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Software Usage Monitoring and Optimization

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Many of you are asked to do more with less: Invest in new technology with a shrinking software budget or cover more tasks with fewer resources. Many of you have a security focus. All of you are high-end users of technology, with little tolerance for denials and bad performance of your systems. And finally, many of you provide software or services and you want the end-users to have as much value from your delivery as possible. In that way they will be your long term customer. Let us show you how:
  • To benefit from monitoring information technology resource usage in your environment or at your customer site. Metering matters and what you can expect to accomplish with metering.
  • The business cases of an E&P organizations clearly benefited from implementing an IT usage monitoring.
  • The common obstacles of getting started and give you some advice on what to look for and how to move forward with usage monitoring.

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Software License Tracking: Curbing Camping and Hoarding with Granular Visibility

Continuous access to engineering and design applications such as MATLAB, Ansys, or AutoCAD often dictates whether projects advance efficiently or encounter costly delays. Yet without effective software license tracking, licenses remain finite, expensive, and frequently tied up in ways that reduce overall availability.  A significant factor is camping and hoarding behavior, where users hold onto

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Engineers working on CAD software in a modern manufacturing lab, illustrating Open iT’s insights on software licensing models for optimizing engineering software usage and cost efficiency.

SOLIDWORKS Software Licensing Models: Network or Named User? 

For engineering-driven industries such as automotive, where design cycles are compressed and global collaboration is the norm, the choice of software licensing models has direct implications for productivity, cost control, and long-term scalability.  SOLIDWORKS offers both seat-based (concurrent/floating/network) and named user entitlements, each with benefits and constraints. The challenge lies not in understanding their mechanics,

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Open iT: Unlocking Software Value at Mexico Oil & Gas Summit 2025

Oil & Gas companies in Latin America are under growing pressure to improve efficiency while keeping technology costs under control. Specialized engineering and geoscience applications, vital for exploration and production, often carry high licensing costs. Without visibility into actual usage, many organizations risk overspending, under-utilizing assets, and missing opportunities to optimize resources. Against this backdrop,

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